A. Catharine Ross, professor of nutrition, has been selected to receive the Osborne and Mendel Award of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences for her research on vitamin A.

She is currently studying the molecular and genetic regulations of vitamin A activity with the goal of finding the optimal levels of the vitamin for human and animal health.

Ross holds the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Nutrition and has been on the Penn State faculty since 1994.

She will receive the award April 1 at the society's annual meeting.